• Seven colour blind Tube maps (BrilliantMaps) • SF Salesforce Transit Centre retake (Dirt) • The first org chart was by a railway (SandraRendgen) • Confessions of an electric scooter (McSweeneys) • When they used …
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Friday Reads – 14 June 2019
• London tops most pricey public transport league table (Forbes) • Four new London Low Emission Neighbourhoods to be created (AirQualityNews) • New interactive map provides UK railway station accessibility info (SignDesignSoc) • The Magic …
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• Can a Crossrail City Airport station be built? (HydeParkNow) • TfL extends Walking Tube Map to Zone 3 (MappingLondon) • Clean air is a national responsibility (TransportXtra) • Grand Paris Express tunneling progress video …
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• Building over Moorgate station (Building) • London electric car charge map (MappingLondon) • Tottenham Court Rd cuts both ways again (HydeParkNow) • Musk’s DC-Baltimore car tunnel idea worse than pointless (Jalopnik) • New trains …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 22 April 2019
• Tube map of London roads (DiamondGeezer) • Homes England to winch homes onto London rooftops (EnvJ) • Trolley canal boats and canal railways (LowTechMag) • Cycling tunnels under the Tyne dug by hand (Guardian) …
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• Analog Tube map prototyping (EsriArcGISBlog) • Paris to trial all night Metro & Tram lines (MetroReport) • Uber admits directly competing with transit (Jalopnik) • Story of Toronto streetcars’ bullseyes (SeanMarshall) • Old NYC …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 12 April 2019
• Why are fewer people riding the Tube? (TheDeveloper) • £2 Tube coin design evolution and details (HydeParkNow) • Nottingham Park commuter tunnel mis-spec (AtlasObscura) • Salford students built Great War tank tram (USalford) • …
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California Dreamin’ • London pollution affecting kids’ lung development (CityMetric) • Disused passage posters at Notting Hill Gate (VintagePosterBlog) • Dutch singing road closed after noise complaints (Beeb) • NYC Parks by subway stations map …
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• Designing wayfinding for the 2012 Olympics (CityWayfinding) • LNER 1939 suburban lines map (MappingLondon) • Paris’ 1900 moving sidewalk (TreeHugger) • Historic & modern transit system maps compared (Guardian) • Seattle’s Waterfront, minus expressway, …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 March 2019
Welcome to Reconnections’ Fridays: • London’s most stressful Tube stations (MappingLondon) • Ongoing saga of Berlin-Brandenberg airport (OneMileataTime) • Aerial views of the world’s oldest metros (QuickQuid) • Latest developments in mapmaking event (SchematicMapping) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 February 2019
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Alternative Holden/Green Tube stations (Londonist) • Urban rooms where people design their city’s future (TheConversation) • The role of rail in tackling loneliness (RailwayTech) • Largest drive-free vehicle at …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 January 2019
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Drivers resist London’s first low-emission zone (Guardian) • London 2018 Traffic Composition Survey (CityOfLondon) • Danish paper cuts most flying to cut carbon footprint (NYTimes) • Online shopping was …
Continue readingLondon air pollution 3D maps (MappingLondon)
Air pollution has long been a problem in London, and the current mayor has identified pollution as one of his major goals to highlight and tackle polluion, and improve the capital’s air quality during his …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 14 December 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Tube map finally shows walkable interchanges (IanVisits) • Farewell to a London ghost train (HiddenEurope) • All Swiss intercity trains have playground area (WEForum) • Talent wants transit – …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 23 November 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads: • Victorian railway viaduct transformed into home (TreeHugger) • Unofficial Paris Metro map improvement process (SmashingMag) • NYC subway mosaics tell visual stories (99%Invisible) • Chicago L card game (MassTransit) …
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